Becoming a Witch can be empowering and fun but for some it becomes something else. Something they feel they own and gives them power above everyone else.
Through personal experience and listening to friends this is unfortunately today, especially with social media , it is all too common. The most noticeable thing about them is that they are not true Witches at all, for if they where then they would not be this way based on knowledge they should know. Often they come simply from an ego concept and are by nature very narcissistic in personality. They can also be dangerous to your mindset and understanding of things based on what they should be. They thrive on drama, and have very negative concepts. What they fail to understand is a real Witch works on instinct and for them they will very quickly gain an instinct into someone. But for them they do not and cannot understand this as they do not know. Always go with your gut feelings and let them lead you as they are never wrong.
Where I live we have someone like this who seems to have self declared herself the queen of witches, but she is really a very sad, narcissistic, feeble nobody with nothing else. She tried to start a hate campaign against myself and did everything possible to ridicule me, but it backfired and I did not have to raise a wand or anything. She claimed I was upsetting her community in the area, to be honest it was not even her community, she just claimed that. But by her slating me on her groups she did not realise I had met a lot of Witches on their at events and other stuff. It wasn’t long before I was getting messages in my inbox telling me of the petty little things she was saying. I did not react and nature took its natural course, and most genuine people saw her true colours coming out and ended up falling out with her. Silence is golden in such things.
With social media today as it is, the opportunity for these nuggets to thrive is there and they will take advantage of it. So like I mentioned keep an eye out and trust your instincts on others, if they start telling you what you should be doing and when and where then that is a good indication of who they are and who they are certainly not. But unfortunately others do follow them and they will pray on the vulnerable as they are easy to recruit and follow like little lambs blindly. You will normally know if they are not who they seem as when you make a comment or post something they argue or try to tell you what you should put, they only do this as your comment or post is really good and it threatens their self perceived status.
My advice is, just don’t listen to them or engage at all, just leave them and move on as engaging with them will give them even more ego and swell their heads even more. You are better than that so don’t add fuel to a fire that is going to burn out soon in any case. But just be aware that once you have their attention they are bound to follow you.
Social media can be good but 90% of the time it does not really help you, by all means have you small group of friends and use it to keep in touch with them. But if your not sure on how it all works keep yourself to yourself and the universe will draw friends to you. Friends who you are meant to have.
Eclectic Ordained Pagan Priest